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Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

Bump, Gabriel

Summary: "After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUM
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Oliver, Diane

Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024

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Jackson, Kosoko

Summary: "A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAC

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Summary: From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and co-author of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story, which explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics, about a girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group. The ideal next read for fans of Roxane Gay, Jacqueline Woodson, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Warrior Princess. Thats what...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC ZOB

Williams, LaDarrion

Summary: "Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2024

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Williams, Fiona

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Summary: "Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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Emill, Jumata

Summary: Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMI

Colbert, Brandy

Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COL

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COL

Thomas, Trisha R.

3 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "From acclaimed African-American novelist Trisha Thomas comes the story of Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1950s Oklahoma whose gift of "second sight" pulls her into a dangerous small-town scandal involving a society wedding, a murder, and shocking family secrets"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024

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McBride, James

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Summary: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Magoon, Kekla

Summary: "A multi-generational novel beginning with three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night, and picking up as their three teens head to prom eighteen years later"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books and Company 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MAG

Thomas, Angie

Summary: STARR ES UNA CHICA DE DIECISÉIS AÑOS que vive entre dos el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante distrito residencial blanco. El difícil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella se convierte en testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policía. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GranTravesía 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THO

Walker, Alice

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize--winning author weaves a "glorious and iridescent" (Library Journal) tapestry of interrelated lives in this new edition of the New York Times bestselling sequel to The Color Purple. In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WAL

Williams, Tia

Summary: "Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Mosley, Walter

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mullholland Books / Little, Brown and Company 2024

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